From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-118142-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1PXNNc-00059U-Ib for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:25:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAFB4E05F2; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:24:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95091E05F2 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:24:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywa6 with SMTP id 6so5977949ywa.40 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:24:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=saETYqbi/3vLSASoZHHfAXPlAgnzlB5npoZPcx/qHao=; b=To+PxFbXH5ME6T8PTGAOMpDmDQunMrb40zC45pGg3GuMB/MS6RLFr6FuY28s2Ruchc YB6xTCYkJpWHuMucDR5Mn/AklZ1XmFaaVhfYxW0so3RKqNCVHyqrr13Pm/is/AKY8r4U 1JKjbr9hBc8Ca4sGlxflevozCCchZsqVsIbAI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=CONnrDecdwCf9Py/8RpZ5mL+U9piHn2UvhDqhnpbNdRR6NGaCT68gCgydfBlfF9ogl cJ53n7sfnR5YyH1rS1V8fHqH4o6W0Ui4EOzLfnKqfoq7IsjY6PR/V6/p/oI1opjrAwLd FZsB4ciuO37NVB5gPNtK+D70pHaJ1Vs0fpKMw= Received: by 10.151.79.11 with SMTP id g11mr16754090ybl.196.1293495844441; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:24:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-122-37.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.122.37]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r6sm12247354yba.11.2010.12.27.16.24.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:24:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D192E21.8030302@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:24:01 -0600 From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101212 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32 or 64 bits, CFLAGS and kernel settings ? References: <4D18BA7E.2070202@numericable.fr> <4D18CC8B.7030107@gmail.com> <ifb9fv$65h$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <ifb9fv$65h$1@dough.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6afd5d70-62fb-4193-85f7-98579947f03a X-Archives-Hash: 26434df608b3393295b04bec353d923b walt wrote: > On 12/27/2010 09:27 AM, Dale wrote: > >> I went with 64 bit and used a miltilib profile. So far, everything is >> working fine. > > Dale, don't wait -- go buy a hundred lottery tickets before your luck > runs out :) > > Why? Going with multilib means I can run either 32 or 64 bit code if needed. What's the point of buying a nice CPU if you are not going to use it? If I was going to run 32 bit, I should have stuck with my old rig. Please explain why this is not going to work long term? Dale :-) :-)